Motivational Quotes

Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.